لَم تَدرِ وَليَغفِر لَها رَبُّها

ما جَشَّمَتنا أَمَةُ الواحِدِ

She knows not, may her Lord forgive her,

What injury the nation of one faith has inflicted upon us.

جَشَّمَتِ الهَولَ بَراذينَنا

نَسأَلُ عَن بَيتِ أَبي خالِدِ

It has inflicted horrors upon our young men.

We ask about the house of Abu Khalid.

نَسأَلُ عَن شَيخِ بَني كاهِلٍ

أَعيا خَفاءٌ نِشدَةَ الناشِدِ

We ask about the elder of the Bani Kahel.

My eyes are sleepless because of the chants of the elegist.